Mr. Speaker, on behalf of SOCAN, the Society of Composers, Authors and Music Publishers of Canada, I would like to invite everyone to celebrate the first-ever Canadian Music Creator Day on Friday, November 7.
Canadian Music Creator Day reaffirms SOCAN's mission to ensure that Canadian music creators are respected, recognized and fairly compensated.
SOCAN has been doing this important work for 100 years. The date, November 7, was chosen to honour the birthday of one of the greatest songwriters of all time from Canada, Joni Mitchell.
I invite everyone to sit down and enjoy their favourite Joni song tomorrow, or a song by any other amazing Canadian, and to honour the great musical creators of this country on Canadian Music Creator Day.